So, during high school, I had an 8088 processor on an old IBM machine (this was 1995 by the way, so it was a bit out dated.)
I managed to frag it. (I, being the dense one, didnt know what the . and the .. directories were in DOS, so I tried deleting them. ooops...heh).

Fast forward 3 years. 1998, I graduate, nowhere near the top of my class.. (another ooops...)

Travel to Utah State University (yet another ooops) for aerospace engineering. Figure out within a week that I dont want to do that, so switch to Computer Science.

Move back to Colorado, and go to Colorado State. Fast forward to now. Internship, motorcycle, bank, and the freedom to learn PERL!!!!

I have the camel, but I want MORE!

what other books are good for this sort of thing? I have a heavy java background, because that's what I started programming in, and that's what I have to use at work for most things. but, I digress... let me know what I need to read!

Reccomendations (from you to me):Perl Cookbook

Update: As you can see from the picture above, I managed to drop the bike. That was almost painful. Yup... crashed right on the wallet :)

Ada Lovelace for the palindrome
Albert Einstein for having smelly feet
Alfred Nobel for his contribution to battlefield science
Burkhard Heim for providing the missing link between science and mysticism
Claude Shannnon for riding a unicycle at night at MIT
Donald Knuth for being such a great organist
Edward Teller for being the template for Dr. Strangelove
Edwin Hubble for pretending to be a pipe-smoking English gentleman
Erwin Schrödinger for cruelty to cats
Hedy Lamarr for weaponizing pianos
Hugh Everett for immortality, especially for cats
Isaac Newton for his occult studies
Kikunae Ikeda for discovering the secrets of soy sauce
Larry Wall for his website
Louis Camille Maillard for discovering why steaks taste good
Marie Curie for the shiny stuff
Nikola Tesla for the cool cars
Paul Dirac for speaking one word per hour when socializing
Richard Feynman for his bongo skills
Robert Oppenheimer for his in-depth knowledge of the Bhagavad Gita
Rusi P Taleyarkhan for Cold Fusion
Sigmund Freud for his Ménage ā trois
Theodor W Adorno for his contribution to the reception of jazz
Wilhelm Röntgen for the foundations of body scanners
Yulii Borisovich Khariton for the Tsar Bomba
Other (please explain why)